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Since never.

People use either Java, PHP or NodeJs.



I don't know where you work, but at my company, I'm struggling to get people to use anything but Python.


Me too, but we don't do web stuff so Python makes at least some sense. Even if it is generally pretty awful.


Good luck with that! I think using python for anything beyond a simple script or PoC, should be taken as a red flag in development and immediately revise that decision of using it.


Could you elaborate as to why? I’ve used to program in PHP and have moved (since I forgot most of PHP) to Python and I don’t get why people are displeased by it.


> I don’t get why people are displeased by it.

By and large "people" are not "displeased" by Python. But every language has a set of diehards, people who dedicated decades to this or that and resent adopting anything else. They will complain no matter what. Python is displacing a lot of other platforms in its continued rise, so the noise keeps going up.

In addition, there are groups of nerds that love to formalize absolutely everything in their code, development speed be damned; and people who will optimize every line they write to an inch of their life (again, dev speed be damned). Both those camps are often uneasy in an ecosystem built on duck-typing, "practicality beats purity", and an overall approach favouring development speed over machine speed.


Tell that to Netflix, youtube, instagram, quora, Uber and others.


Those are all realy slow websites and it's clear why.


Everything but the Crab language is worthless fluff.


you might want to let Instagram or Github know those are the three choices


"People" stuck in 2005, probably.




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